“The Dogpatch Labs initiative has led to the successful launch of several important companies including Instagram, Formspring, JIBE and Thing Labs.

Since the inception of Dogpatch Labs, more than 100 companies have received funding in excess of $140 million. Thirteen companies have already been acquired.

We are extremely proud of the entrepreneurs in our network and look forward to establishing relationships with technology entrepreneurs in Europe.”

Polaris has named Noel Ruane to the role of Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Dogpatch Labs Europe. Ruane previously led and managed LaunchPad, an accelerator program for tech startups in Dublin.

Earlier in his career, Ruane was VP Business Development for IDA Ireland in Mountain View, California, where he was the overseas officer responsible for attracting tech companies like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay and Paypal to Ireland.

Aside from Palo Alto and Dublin, Dogpatch Labs can also be found in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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OverviewDogpatch Labs was founded in San Francisco in 2009 by Polaris Ventures. Since then it has housed a litany of successful startups including Instagram (sold to Facebook for $1 billion). Domestically it has been home to such success stories as Logentries and Intercom who have raised $10 million and $30 million respectively.
In total @dogpatchlabs companies have raised over $250 million in angel and …

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